One of the tenets of Stephen Harper’s Conservative party, like its predecessors, the Reform party and the Canadian Alliance, is a populist belief in “majority rule” when determining minority rights. 743 more words

I would like to heartily recommend the B.C. RCMP refrain from its practice of stranding armed citizens near populated areas. I can attest, from personal experience, that leaving oddly-dressed people with guns to wander along the roadside has a disconcerting effect on passers-by. 598 more words

Buyer’s remorseStephen Gordon, writing in the National Post, argues the Norwegian model for managing oil revenues, which is so popular among “big picture pundits,” really isn’t all that applicable to Alberta: Whereas Norway’s oil reserves “will be exhausted within a few decades,” Alberta’s won’t be for centuries — and “it’s just as easy to predict the structure of the 23rd century as it was for early 19th-century visionaries to predict the structure of ours.” 954 more words

I think we have all been guilty of misjudging Danielle Smith. At the time, so many lifetimes ago, when the former Wildrose party leader deserted not only her former party but also her own former leadership of it, many people accused her and the eight other apostates who went with her of a cynical act of betrayal. 877 more words